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3 May 2012
By m3jimphoto
May 3, 2012

Carlos Santana, Supernatural Supernova

For the month of May we’re going to focus on Jim’s relationship, both in front of and behind the camera, with one of the San Francisco music scene’s most enduring stars: Carlos Santana.

Throughout the highs and lows, thicks and thins of life with Jim, there can be no dispute that Carlos always stood by him; a great and loyal friend. I can speak to this directly because I saw it up close and personal.

19 April 2012
By m3jimphoto
April 19, 2012

Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963: It's About Family

  • Turk Murphy
  • Miles Davis
  • Gill Evans
  • Gerry Mulligan
  • Harry James
  • Mondavi burgandy

Today’s blog wraps up our coverage of Jim’s early work covering jazz, specifically as the official photographer of the Monterey Jazz Festival of 1963.  The more I’ve looked at and studied this early work of Jim's, the more I see how he was intent on making connections and creating a sense of intimacy, a feeling of family.  I always chalked his fascination with family up to Jim’s fraught childhood, his black sheep status and how upset he remained throughout his whole life over his lack of siblings.

5 April 2012
By m3jimphoto
April 5, 2012

Monterey Jazz Festival 1963, Backstage and Beyond

  • Kim Novak
  • Miles Davis
  • Chic fan
  • Chair and trumpet
  • Monterey Jazz Festival

By 1963 Jim was living in NYC and enjoying one of his most productive periods as a photojournalist, specializing in documenting all genres of entertainers and beyond.  However, the Monterey Jazz Festival of that year managed to lure him back home to Northern California with the prospect of once-again serving as the festival’s official photographer. Jim had been the official photographer at the 1960 festival as well, which I focused on in the these past two blogs:

22 March 2012
8 March 2012
By m3jimphoto
March 8, 2012

Monterey Jazz Festival, 1960

  • Jimmy Rushing
  • Helen Humes
  • Wes Montgomery
  • Miriam Makeba and John Hendricks
  • Saxophone

There is so much of Jim’s early work to love and find inspiring, but for me the real power and passion lies in the body of work he created in the early ’60s documenting the jazz greats, their supporting casts, adoring fans and even the tools of their trade.